Niléane15h ago

I've been critical of the way the @verge has been covering the development of HBO's upcoming Harry Potter reboot. But it looks like it wasn't in vain.

If you're going to cover it, *this* is how the series should be described every time it's mentioned.

https://www.theverge.com/entertainment/900819/hbo-harry-potter-trailer-release-date

Show threadNiléane15h ago
Media coverage aside, looks like this Christmas is gonna suck for trans people who will have to deal — on top of everything — with their entire social circles of cis people gasping and gushing over the new Harry Potter series that's actively funding the policies that are torturing and killing them.
Show threadNiléane15h ago

Cis people reading this, if you intend to watch the new HP series when it comes out, here’s two pieces of advice that you're not allowed to ignore:

• Have the decency to keep it and your reactions to yourself. This trans people-killing piece of media doesn't need any of your free publicity.

• Pirate the shit out of it.

Show threadBård H. (lvl 49 🇳🇴)12h ago

@nileane

I'll make sure to disable the seeding limit on this one 😇

Show threadEmber is so tired of people. ​
@baardhaveland @nileane No. if you must pirate nazi media, don't reshare it
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Show threadBård H. (lvl 49 🇳🇴)1h ago

@Ember @nileane

The idea of seeding it, was to help sabotage the profits by keeping it available for longer (not that I think my protest matters that much anyway, considering how popular HP already is).

If more people are pirating it, then less people are paying for it.

I don't even plan to view the stuff...

Show threadBård H. (lvl 49 🇳🇴)1h ago

@Ember @nileane

Technically, more people will not be tempted to pirate/view it based on my action. That's not how this works.

But those who already wish to pirate it, have a better chance of succeeding.

If they succeed, they won't have to pay a subscription to view it.

Show threadEmber is so tired of people. ​6m ago

@baardhaveland @nileane most people pirating something will have never planned to buy it in the first place

Better if it's radioactive to both pirate AND buy, if few people seed it makes it slower and higher effort to download or distribute, and the fewer who view that shit the better

Also, piracy acts as free marketing (free because most people pirating would never have bought it) and unintuitively can boost sales (the free marketing + people who pirated and liked it enough to buy)